Wilhelm Bleek owned a small collection of engravings and lithographs of family portraits. The remains of the collection are still in their original large heavyweight paper folder, 21½ x 12½ inches. Using pencil, Bleek inscribed on the cover “Familien bilder” [Family Portraits] and in ink listed the contents and the original number of copies it contained. Only six of the portraits remain in the folder.
Cited as Bleek Folder.
In the 1980s Scott removed the engraving of Johan August Sack from the folder and mounted it in an album on the Bleek family from which it is too fragile to be removed. Cited as Scott Bleek Album, 1980s.
The portraits are listed as Items63 through 69.
Bleek Folder Cover inscription:
Familien Bilder [Family Portraits]
Stifter [Founder] 1
Urgrossvater und Urgrossmutter 1
[Bleek’s maternal Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother,
Carl August Sack and his wife Margareta Gertraud, 1804.]
Johan August Sack 1
Grossvater (altes Bild) 8
[An older portrait of Bleek’s maternal grandfather, Christoph
Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe.]
Grossmutter 14
[Bleek’s maternal grandmother, Henrietta Sethe (born Sack).]
Onkel Ernst 10
[Portrait of a young man with a dueling scar across his left cheek.
“a la Brutus” hairstyle, cutaway coat and tall standing collar date this portrait to 1795-1820. Possibly Bleek’s great-uncle, his grandmother Henrietta Sethe’s brother, Ernst H.E. Sack who married Henrietta’s sister-in-law Jeanette Sethe (1778-1851).]
Vater (Sethe) 3
[A younger portrait of Bleek’s maternal grandfather, Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe.]
Vater ([?]) 1
Wilhelm [&] Philipp 3
[Portrait of Bleek and his brother Philipp.]
Wilhelm Philipp Auta [Augusta] Theodor Johannes, Hedwig 1
[Portrait of Bleek and five of his siblings.]